January 5, 2009
A Superior Court judge in Los Angeles late last month ruled that the California Department of Health Care Services must provide medical care to low-income state residents living with HIV in compliance with a 2002 state law, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation announced, Bloomberg reports (Pettersson, Bloomberg, 12/23/08). Read More...
January 5, 2009
Ringing in the new year in style, AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s popular and award-winning ‘Out of the Closet’ thrift store chain—the nation’s largest retail fundraising vehicle for HIV/AIDS medical care and research—has landed on the top ten list in a recent Los Angeles Times feature article titled, “The Thrifters.” Read More...
December 30, 2008
Hundreds of children were treated to an afternoon of holiday festivities, including gifts, a hot meal, face-painting, singing and dancing at AHF's annual holiday party at its "Ithembalabantu Clinic" in Durban, South Africa last week. Read More...
December 23, 2008
By: Edvard Pettersson
California was ordered by a court to provide Medi-Cal coverage to poor people who are HIV-positive but who haven’t been diagnosed with AIDS, said a nonprofit organization that had sued the state. Read More...
December 23, 2008
The Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles has entered a judgment and will issue a writ ordering California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to implement a landmark 2002 law intended to extend Medi-Cal (Medicaid) coverage to HIV-positive Californians. Read More...
December 19, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is proud to announce that it has received a “Letter of Appreciation” from the government of Sierra Leone expressing gratitude for AHF’s partnership in the recent “One Million Tests/World AIDS Day 2008” campaign. Read More...
December 17, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is proud to have received a letter of acknowledgement from Austin Menzies Moyo Snr,, Chairman of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) – South Africa Province, a prominent Zimbabwean political party, expressing gratitude for AHF’s partnership in the recent “One Million Tests/World AIDS Day 2008” campaign. Read More...
December 15, 2008
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the nation’s largest non-profit HIV/AIDS organization, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Central America and Asia, has been surveyed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for reaccreditation and again awarded Full Accreditation for its clinically proven disease management program, Positive Healthcare. Read More...
December 10, 2008
The narrow alleyways that serve as kitchens, playgrounds and open drains all at once are unusually quiet. Read More...
December 5, 2008
By: Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
California's Department of Health Care Services has failed to enact a six-year-old state law (AB 2197) that calls for the implementation of a program to provide medical care to low-income California residents living with HIV, according to a ruling announced Thursday by the Los Angeles County Superior Court, the Los Angeles Times reports (Rau, Los Angeles Times, 12/5). Read More...
